Tile and tile-faced surface.



W. P. MEEKER.

TILE AND TILE FACED SURFACE. APPLICATION FILED 001". 1a, 1906.

943,950. Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

omen s'rA'rEs AENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM PASSMORE MEEKER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

TILE AND TILE-FACED SURFACE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 18, 1906. Serial No. 839,457.

Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PASSMORE MEEKER, of Newark, Essex county, New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tiles and Tile-Faced Surfaces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to glass tiles which are used for forming an outer finish on walls, ceilings and similar surfaces, and-consists in the particulars hereinafter set forth.

,In the drawing I have shown a perspective view of the back and ed e of one of my improved tiles, which consists essentially of a body A provided with a plain-surfaced back with short, inclined holding flanges B B at each end. These flanges which are tapered laterally from the vbottom to the top,

.are all inclined toward one edge of the tile,

and are preferably a trifle longer than they. are wide, substantially as shown ,in the drawing. That portion of the back of the tile lying between these flanges is uniformly plain or even, or approximately so.-

As is well understood in the art, the principal difiiculty in satisfactorily securin in position .glass tiles provided with hol ing.

portions upon their backs arises from the stressqwhich is put upon thd holding portions and the tile by the setting of the cement upon which it may be mounted. If the cement lies between extended and opposite holding flanges or surfaces, the setting of the cement is liable to either break the tile or to fracture or stri flanges or projections off 0 the tile body;

and if a multiplicity of extended projections the holding are formed upon the back of the tile, this tendency to fracture and strip is rather increased than diminished; but by forming short, stout, but relatively thin'and inclined flanges at either end of the tile, I leave the entire central back portion free so that the cement may ive or set beneath it without gitudinal stress to which they are Sub ected' y the setting ofthe cement, the form and relative disposition of the flanges permitting them to move laterally in the cement without disturbing the clasp of the cement socket upon their flat, parallel ends.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- Qent of the United States is A glass facing-tile embodying a plain-surfaced back provided at each end with a pluralit of short, stout but relatively thin hpldmg-flanges each having two convergin sides and twoparallel sides and all of sai flanges being laterally inclined in the same i I direction.

WILLIAM PASSMORE MEEJKER.

Witnesses:

WM. 1). NnmLEY, WILLIAM H. Moan. 

